The Makers of Buddhism

March 3, Monday —— Day 1:

Makers of Buddhism in Japan

9:00 – 9:30

Greetings (Prof. Juan Campo, Chair of Religious Studies; Prof. Yūsaku Nakabeppu, JSPS; Prof. Vesna Wallace and Prof. Fabio Rambelli, organizers)

9:30 – 10:15

Fabio Rambelli (Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Buddhism, Arts and Crafts, and Salvation” + Q&A

10:15 – 11:00

Minamitani Miho (Professor, Shitennoji University, Osaka)

“The Sacred Patron of Performing Arts: Reconsidering Prince Shōtoku‘s Role in the Preservation and Transmission of Buddhist Performing Arts” + Q&A

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00

Ono Shinryū (President and Artistic Director, Tennōji Gakuso Garyōkai; President, Gagaku Association)

“Bugaku and Japanese Buddhism” + Q&A

12:00 – 1:45

Lunch Break (Faculty Club)

1:45 – 2:30

Andrea Castiglioni (Associate Professor, Nagoya City University, Nagoya)

“The Thingliness of Negoroji: Crafts, Gyōnin, and Artisans in Sixteenth Century Japan”　+ Q&A

2:30 – 3:15

Matthias Hayek (Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

“The Dharma of Heaven and Earth: Cosmological Discourses and Practices in a Buddhist Context” + Q&A

3:15 – 3:30

Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:15

Ellen Van Goethem (Professor, Kyushu University, Fukuoka) via Zoom

“The Hands that Build a Temple: Artisans and Laborers in Ancient Japan” + Q&A

4:15 – 5:15

Keynote Speech: Bernard Faure (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, New York)

“Forging Ahead: The Crucible of Premodern Japanese Religion” + Q&A

5:15 – 5:45

Discussion

5:45 – 6:00

Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): Presentation of research grants and opportunities

6:30

Dinner

March 4, Tuesday —— Day 2

Makers of Buddhism in Mongolia

9:00 – 9:45

Samuel Bass (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)

“Staffing a Reincarnate Lama’s Estate: Domestic Personnel and the Devastation of the Fourth Noyon Khutagt” + Q&A

9:45 – 10:30

Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir (Research Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara and Zanabazar Buddhist University)

“Mongolian Illustrations of Lower Realms as Teaching Methods” + Q&A

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:30

Gunzee Chimedzundui (Deputy Head Teacher and President at Buman Khand BWA-Institute of Dialectics, Mongolia)

“The Geluk Tradition in Mongolia: The Oral Transmission of Chod Melodies” + Q&A

11:30 – 12:15

Lhagvademchig Jadamba (Lecturer, National University of Mongolia)

“Buddhist Heritage in Socialist Art: The Works of Damdinsüren” + Q&A

12:15 – 1:45

Lunch break

1:45 – 2:30

Vesna A. Wallace (Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara)

“The tradition of śilpa-śāstra literature (manuals of practical arts) in India and its heritage in the Mongolian Buddhist Education in the Post-Socialist Period” + Q&A

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:00

Keynote Lecture – Matthew King (Professor, University of California, Riverside)

“A Litany of Stone and Wood: Γarčiγ (T. Dkar chag) and the Interiority of Yeke-yin Küriye’s Buddhist Material Culture from 1810-1937” + Q&A break

4:00 – 5:00

General Discussion

5:00 – 5:15

Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): Presentation of research grants and opportunities

6:30

Dinner

March 5, Wednesday —— Day 3

International Workshop “Shitennōji as a Sacred Site, Shōtoku Taishi, and the Making of Japanese Buddhism”

9:00 – 10:45

Public viewing of Shōtoku Taishi eden (“Illustrated biography of Prince Shōtoku”) set of six hanging scrolls dated 1323 (digital replica) (Important National Property, Shitennōji, Osaka)

10:45 – 11:15

Video message from His Eminence Minamitani Ekei (Shitennōji temple, Osaka)

“Shitennōji and Its Role in Society”

11:15 -12:15

Keynote Lecture: Minamitani Miho (Shitennōji Representative and Professor, Shitennōji University, Osaka)

“Shitennōji as a Sacred Site: Its History and the Elements Constituting Its Sacredness” + Q&A

12:30 – 1:45

Lunch break

1:45 – 2:45

Abe Yasurō (Professor Emeritus, Ryukoku University, Kyoto)

“Traditional Arts and Crafts at Shitennōji in Relation to Prince Shōtoku and Its Worship” + Q&A

2:45 – 3:45

Abe Tomomi (Director, Kongōgumi Corporation, Osaka main office)

“Buddhism in Construction Rituals” + Q&A

3:45 – 4:00

Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:00

Watanabe Keiichirō (Curator, Office of Cultural Assets, Shitennōji temple, Osaka)

“The Reconstruction of Shitennōji after World War II: The Makers of Buddhism in the Modern Era” + Q&A

5:00 – 5:30

Panel discussion

7:00

Dinner